1st grow....expert supervision welcomed!

Ive always been a 400 type of guy LSY. Never owned a 6, would have liked to, but never have.

As far as tent growing is concerned with HID lights, ventilation and ventilation are your 2 most important variables to control. Exhaust all the way OUT of the room the tent is in if possible. Does no good to dump it into the same room and recycle the hot air back into the tent.

If you can go air cooled, do it. Much easier to control temps.

I have run open wing reflectors in tents and I would get temp spikes up to and into the 90's. It's doable, but you have to stay on top of things 24/7.

I'll answer anything I can, always glad to help someone willing to help themselves.

Thanks for that Irydyum :) Soon as we get some money saved up we'd like to get the air cooled lights. In the meantime, we'll go with the ventilation tip..never occurred about dumping the out-going air in same room....duhhhh! But top tip and well appreciated :)

Today we're panicking. Maybe not so much panicking but near to it.....have we done something wrong, how can we remedy our little girl's apparent unhappiness? Look at her:

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She was looking a bit depressed before transplanting, and now she's having a tantrum! her leaves look kinda dried up but they don't feel dried up. Hoping it's a reaction to moving pots and that she'll settle down in a day or so. The girl that was showing signs of going yellow is now going green again, so moving home did her a world of good. Just a bit worried about Lil Droopy Drawers there....really dont want any others to go the same way! The temps were quite low the last couple of nights which might also have upset her, though dunno why the rest of the family haven't reacted the same way. Nothing has been done differently with any of them....they are all treated the same. "HashHospital" advice would be appreciated here....will Lil Droopy Drawers pick up or are er days numbered? Gee I wish I had paid more attention when my brother was growing years ago! But then maybe not...his was a laid back to being horizontal approach to growing lol. Anywho, just raised the temps for the girls and gonna check every hour or so that temps and humidity are good. Other than that, I wait and hope she'll pick up a bit and quit her tantrum. :i feel stupid:

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Thanks for that Irydyum :) Soon as we get some money saved up we'd like to get the air cooled lights. In the meantime, we'll go with the ventilation tip..never occurred about dumping the out-going air in same room....duhhhh! But top tip and well appreciated :)

Today we're panicking. Maybe not so much panicking but near to it.....have we done something wrong, how can we remedy our little girl's apparent unhappiness? Look at her:

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She was looking a bit depressed before transplanting, and now she's having a tantrum! her leaves look kinda dried up but they don't feel dried up. Hoping it's a reaction to moving pots and that she'll settle down in a day or so. The girl that was showing signs of going yellow is now going green again, so moving home did her a world of good. Just a bit worried about Lil Droopy Drawers there....really dont want any others to go the same way! The temps were quite low the last couple of nights which might also have upset her, though dunno why the rest of the family haven't reacted the same way. Nothing has been done differently with any of them....they are all treated the same. "HashHospital" advice would be appreciated here....will Lil Droopy Drawers pick up or are er days numbered? Gee I wish I had paid more attention when my brother was growing years ago! But then maybe not...his was a laid back to being horizontal approach to growing lol. Anywho, just raised the temps for the girls and gonna check every hour or so that temps and humidity are good. Other than that, I wait and hope she'll pick up a bit and quit her tantrum. :i feel stupid:

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Hey Flyinhi I had two ladies do the same thing after repotting. Dont worry there will be new growth coming in and the leafs wont look like that just watch your temps.... If im wrong someone please correct me. The little ladies look great though keep up the good work Flyinhi.:thumbsup:

That seedling is fine, in fact its a lot better then some of mine before i re potted them. Id say it might have gotten a bit of heat, which will curl the leaves like that. Also, iv seen too many nutes do that, but your not giving them yet. I think if ya get a fan to blow air around them, your good:hippy:

Thanks irydyum, im not giving advise to equipment iv never used or have the knowledge of, but like to pay the help i got from you and so many others forward:thumbsup:, thanks for poppin in man:jointsmile:. Oh and maybe i want a 600hps so bad i thought you grew out the WW's with, but it just makes that grow even better.

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Once again, I offer my thanks! Lil Miss Droopy Drawers does have some good leaves and fresh ones coming through, so I guess I'm getting a bit over-protective lol. They've got a little fan blowing on them too, been doing that for a few days now. I did want to get a bit of a breeze blowing before that but was so nervous coz they were so little and so fragile looking. But they do like the fan :) and we can see some of the stems starting to thicken up :) Guess we gotta get tough with our love, just like we did when the kids were little haha. Next grow we won't be so over-cautious and panicky. Will dig out the 'real' camera and get some better pics up over the weekend.....that gives me a few days of trying out some macro shots of the kids or the dogs (if any of them stay still) or whatever grabs my attention and fine-tuning my poor photography skills - by the end of this log, I shall be (hopefully) a more confident grower AND photographer :cool:

Keep on keeping on :rastasmoke:

...it's actually what I'm doing mesef, but I also have some plants in passive hydro, and one in DWC just to see if they could catch up with the ladies in 2.5 - 3ga of dirt, and now just going into flower as of last week...

Am planning my next grow on / round a rubbermaid tub/mesh pot thingy that shouldn't cost too much to build, and will let me do 1-15 plants, with an easy way to get to all plants.

If you did chose dirt, you could do individuSCRoG with 'em, by placing a mesh support over each container of dirt, thereby giving you the best of both worlds as far as trainability / transportability...

Just my :twocents:

...seriously, keep up the good work!

I found the first few transplants were the hardest, I fussed a lot over getting it 'just right',... but now, when one of 'em needs to move on up, I git a move on, because the last thing I want is a lil' girl who gets rootbound :/

Now, it's kinda fun when someone needs transplanting... almost like a little birthday party... "My, my my! Aren't you a /biiig/ girl, now?" :D

And if you don't feel like doing SCRoG, or would find it cumbersome with so many plants, remember that you can always use LST (Light Stress Training) on each of 'em to their individual pots, with nothing more than some string and a way to make it stay...

Day 15 from seeds going in soil.........and yesterday was a bit of a disaster :(

One of our T5 lighting has packed in, so we've had to put the girls in the growtent for now, sharing one T5 light, which really isn't enough. To add the the problems, the humidity levels rocket through the night, and we're struggling to maintain them at an acceptable level. 2 pots look like they're showing slight signs of mold as a result, which is obviously baaad news. The girls really need to go back in the cabinet but until we can get a new light, we're banging our heads against the brick wall. Payday is not until next week :( and are currently trying to find someone who can loan us either a light or enough to get one ASAP, but without them clicking what it's for.....aaaarrrggghhh!!!

How can we reduce humidity but keep the temps up until the lighting issue is resolved? Our imaginations have expired....and we fear our girls may follow suit if we can't rectify the situation immediately :(

I managed to find the macro settings on my camera and have taken a couple of pics yesterday (so girls were 2 weeks old from going in soil). They look pretty much the same today, though not sure how long they will look good for if we ca't figure out a temporary remedy until we get a new light. Hoping someone has had similar issues in the past and can offer some advice :)

Here's the pics:

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On pic 862 you can see where the tip of the leaves had turned color before being re-potted, but she seems to be okay since going into her new home.

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How can we reduce humidity but keep the temps up until the lighting issue is resolved? Our imaginations have expired....and we fear our girls may follow suit if we can't rectify the situation immediately.

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Lol! I love the way you've stated your problem.
It's always difficult to troubleshoot someone's problem without knowing their full situation... however...

How cold does it get outside the tent at night?
My girls get down into the mid to upper 60's and it didn't seem to hurt them a bit.

What are the humidity levels outside the tent?
Can you open the tent up at night and let the humidity out?

Lol, glad to be able to give you a chuckle Raiz :thumbsup: Aiming to stayupbeat and positive throughout any mishaps.....no point in getting overly wound up during what is an essential learning curve (although we do get a bit antsy lol).

Outside temp temps are low 50s at night, so inside tent is not that warm either. Haven't checked outside humidity levels, just have a meter inside thatw e keep a close eye on.

We've managed to get a temporary, albeit fiarly crap, lighting solution - brother in law has been growing for a while, and has upgraded his equipment, so has given us his first light fitting.....basically a regular striplight, which he used to veg until his girls were big enough to take the HID lights, and which took ages for growth, but will have to do until payday.

So, the girls are going back in the cupboard now that we have 2 light sources again. Most likely swap them around the lights every few days so they all get a fair share of the T5 light. The temps and humidity were spot-on in there. We've done a test run of the HIDs in the tent for a few hours when we were checking everything was working and it's all good there too, so we know these issues will not be too worrysome when the girls go under the big lights. They're growing nicely and showing new growth every day, and will soon be big enough to get the HIDs :)

Although we have had these 'little headaches' I'm kinda glad they're happening during the first grow....for one we can plead the newbie plea lol, but also if this had gone perfectly with no concerns and something happened on a later grow, we'd probably freak a bit worse! And we also will be more aware of what to look out for in future grows (and make sure we have replacement parts handy!)

No pics today....nothing exciting to show yet, and don't wanna bore you with baby pics lol. :jointsmile: